Nationality Scottish Website www.mcewan.co.uk | Known for Bookbinding Education Glasgow School of Art | |
Awards The Edgar Mansfield Medal 2012The Edgar Mansfield Medal 2013Society of Bookbinder Award 2009, 2011, 2013Designer Bookbinders Folio Society Prize 2013Designer Bookbinders Clothworkers’ Prize 2013 | ||
Tom McEwan is a multiple award winning Scottish master craftsman and fine bookbinder.
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Life & Work
Born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, in 1976, he enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art, studying sculpture in the Fine Art Department, graduating in 1980 alongside contemporary Sandy Stoddart.
In 2005 he retrained as a Bookbinder, enrolling at a course at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing, gaining his Licentiate from Designer Bookbinders in 2010. His binding of Faust by Goethe was the winner of the National Library of Scotland's Elizabeth Souter Award in 2007, having previously won the Student award in 2006. In 2011 he was announced as the winner of the Society of Bookbinders 'John Coleman' trophy for best book in the 2011 International Competition.
For the Designer Bookbinders Award in 2013, his binding of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was awarded the prestigious Mansfield Medal for best book, as well as The Clothworkers’ Prize for the Open Choice Book, The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley.
For the 2014 Man Booker Prize he was commissioned to create a custom bookbinding for the shortlisted novel The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee. He was elected as a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders in 2014, with his work currently held in various national and private collections.
Collaborations
Tom McEwan also works with artists from other disciplines, such as fellow Courtyard Studios artist Alex Boyd with whom he set up The Dusk Press in 2014.